“What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.” MenSelfCareInterestFriendsSelf LoveFavorsMutualPartnershipTrafficPropose Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.” WorldKindDifferentSeemsMightEyeCareTogetherNationsInterestUnitedCommonTakenMankindParticularBlessingRegionsMutualCommerceGlobesTrafficDependenceIntercourseCommon Interests Book:The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314 Source: The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314